Senior Civil Engineer

Job Summary

The successful candidate will support the project manager and lead design engineer for supervising and coordinating civil and structural engineering activities for construction works and any related design works, ensuring that all site execution complies with approved designs, specifications, quality standards, HSE requirements, and project procedures. The role provides technical guidance, monitors contractor performance, manages construction interfaces, reviews field documentation, supports resolution of site issues, and ensures proper inspection, completion, and handover of civil and structural works in line with project objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities

1       MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for delivering the civil/structural engineering design packages for projects, as appropriate for each phase, in line with the corporate goal of competitive and affordable projects expectation
  
• Lead the design, analysis, and review of civil and structural engineering projects, ensuring compliance with relevant codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
  
• Apply the relevant project and engineering procedures in line with the PMF/DCAF to deliver the appropriate engineering and design requirements and ensure value creation, maturation and protection within the engineering design space.
  
• Ensure all civil/structural engineering discipline requirements and inputs are made into Project documents in close coordination with other technical disciplines to ensure an integrated delivery.
  
• Act as technical expert on projects within the project’s organization and responsible for the relevant discipline deliverables plan for projects. Liaise with Corporate Engineering and other SMEs/TA to provide appropriate technical assurance on projects construction documentation.
  
• Oversee all civil engineering activities during pipeline construction to ensure compliance with design specifications and standards.
  
• Supervise site operations and coordinate contractors to maintain quality, safety, and schedule adherence.
  
• Review and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and method statements and ensure construction works meet applicable codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
  
• Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to stakeholders.
  
• Identify and resolve technical queries/issues arising during construction in line with the company TQ process..
  
• Enforce health, safety, and environmental (HSE) requirements on site.
  
• Conduct inspections and quality checks to ensure workmanship meets required standards.
  
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, including mechanical, electrical, and project management personnel and support project documentation, reporting, and close-out activities.
  
• Carry out and perform basic and detailed design and engineering work: Design Calculations, Simulations, Work scope definition, Project Specifications, selection of standards, Preliminary Design Drawings as may be required for specific projects
  
• Carry out civil/structural design reviews on third party design packages including, BDP, FEED, Detailed Design to ensure  compliance of the deliverables with provisions of the applicable Design standards and specifications as part of the overall project quality assurance program.
  
• Provide support for civil/structural engineering studies and change impact analysis as part of the Management of Change (MOC) procedure.
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Project completion ratio - Actual versus baseline
  
• Quality of Design Deliverables;
  
• Number of reportable incidents per man-hours worked
  
• Quality issues at end of defect rectification period
  
• Time predictability - Time for construction versus baseline
  
• Cost predictability - Design and construction costs to implement change orders
  
• Cycle time from the discovery of a control deficiency to a risk acceptance decision
  
• Turnaround rate for ETQ’s and CTQ’s
  
  

Requirements

Education

A University degree or HND in Civil/Structural Engineering

Experience/Certifications

Extensive experience (7-10 years) in the Oil & Gas industry with direct experience of project engineering, design and construction. At least 4 years should have been spent leading civil engineering design work.

TARGET JOB COMPETENCIES

• Assess, specify geohazards and other environmental hazard
  
• Define, specify, supervise and interpret onshore geotechnical investigation
  
• Define work scopes, specification and equipment specifications for geotechnical field work.
  

• Develop, review site selection studies required and available project infrastructure. Site selection e.g. SCANS and Site(s) layout.
  
• Develop, review site selection studies of environmental design criteria to the construction of facilities.
  
• Develop site plan - facility planning & layouts, roads & earthworks, water supply and drainage utilities specifications, e.g. cooling and drinking water supply, plumbing, sewage treatment & water plants.
  
• Road design criteria and specifications incl design speed, pavement and surface treatments, etc.
  
• Early Works design and construction parameters.Bridges, cranes, channels, water wells, and soil erosion protection/restoration.
  
• Develop drainage systems and primary water treatment, including CPI's and oil traps
  
• Drainage requirements including rain and groundwater; hydrocarbon contaminated run-offs; process water/effluents.
  

• Plan & implement asset integrity management and assessment for civil assets including structural analysis, assessment and design for life extension and brown field developments.
  
• Develop, implement and maintain a civil asset integrity management plan
  
• Execute asset integrity surveys, investigations and audits.
  
• Perform structural analysis and design for asset structural integrity
  

• Design, execute and construct civil structures in steel and concrete
  
• Perform civil structural design, including steel & concrete works
  
• Specify and apply concrete technology including reinforced concrete design and pre-stressed concrete design
  
• Concrete specification including use of composite, admixtures, steel reinforcement, pre-stressing, cube strength and mechanical properties and curing methods.
  
• Properties and behavior of concrete, including physical and chemical properties of aggregates.
  
• Structural concrete deterioration and preventive methods..
  
• Planning and design of buildings including basic architectural principles for the design, including ergonomics, living environment, blast resistance, landscaping, etc.
  
• Human factor engineering for building design
  
• Specifications for the design and construction of buildings.
  
• Specify and manage Lifting and Hoisting
  

• Specify, perform advanced structural analysis for blast foundation for dynamic machinery and non-linear structural analysis applications.
  
• Design flare, flue stacks and telecommunication mast.
  

• Plan, design and execute marine civil infrastructure and dredging works for coastal and inland marine facilities
  
• Specify data collection and execute metocean studies for marine facilities
  
• Design and specify civil and structural design of marine facilities
  
• Specify and design of dredging & reclamation works
  

• Review and deliver papers, reports and other broadcast written communication
  
•  for internal and external audiences
  
• Read and effectively respond to body language and other non -verbal communication signals of an audience
  
• Analyse and recommend appropriate communication media/tools to achieve effective result
  
  

SOFTWARES

•   AutoCAD
  
•  STAAD Pro
  
•  PDMS or E-3D
  
• Navis Work